Beth Orton Releases Video for 1973 + Tour Dates

Photo credit: Tierney Gearon

Beth Orton released the second single from her upcoming album Kidsticks. The album is scheduled to be released on May 27.  The video was created by photographer/director Tierney Gearon. Check it out below.

You can pre-order Kidsticks, HERE.

"As soon as I saw Tierney's work I knew she would be perfect for 'Kidsticks'. I love her use of colour and her layering of images. During the writing of the record I experienced different realities running consecutively. The idea of identity lost and found runs throughout the record. 1973 plays with this idea of memory and reality. There's a surreal nature to Tierney's work that I love, as well as her use of the Californian landscape and light. When Tierney and I met we decided to do the album artwork and also shoot footage too. Not in the way of a pop video but more as she might an art piece. The video has been edited together by Deborah Johnson of Candy Stations, who works a lot with live projections. We plan to build on all the footage Tierney shot over the course of many meetings and make it a part of the live show. I want there to be a thread that runs through the record visually as it does musically." Beth Orton

Tour Dates

• 6/07 - Chicago, IL - City Winery
• 6/09 - Pittsburgh, PA - Three Rivers Arts Festival
• 6/11 - Washington, DC - U Street Music Hall
• 6/12 - Philadelphia, PA - The Foundry
• 6/14 - New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge (click HERE for tickets)
• 6/15 - Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
• 6/19 -  Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom
• 6/20 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
• 6/21 - Portland, OR - Revolution Hall
• 6/23 - Seattle, WA - The Triple Door

Beth Orton To Release New Album, May 27

Beth Orton is scheduled to release her new album, Kidsticks, on May 27. You can pre-order the album HERE.  Check out the track "Moon" from the album below.

When musicians talk about getting back to their roots, it's usually an excuse to pull out a battered old acoustic to create some bare bones music. In Beth Orton's case, going back to her roots meant something very different. 

Having relocated to California a couple of years ago, Beth began experimenting with a series of electronic loops that would eventually come together as her career-redefining new album; a record inspired both by the wide-open nature of Los Angeles and the spirit of Beth's earliest recordings (electronic work with producers like William Orbit, Andrew Weatherall and Kieran Hebden as well as groove-based music with Red Snapper).

Co-produced by Beth and Andrew Hung (Fuck Buttons) and mixed by David Wrench (Caribou/Hot Chip), Kidsticks repositions Beth's unmistakable voice inside ten pure, audacious, playful and kinetic songs. A resolutely focused album, it represents a rare chance to hear an established artist get plugged in and completely rework the songwriting process with wide-eyed, open-minded glee.